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Newport News city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Newport News city’s unemployment rate is 4.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 105 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Newport News city economy

  • 4.2%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 87,665

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 184,774

    people in Newport News city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $66,718

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Newport News city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Newport News city in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Newport News city

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. Newport News Shipbuilding22 open roles
  2. HII Mission Technologies17 open roles
  3. Liebherr4 open roles
  4. Kinder Morgan3 open roles
  5. Augmentis2 open roles
  6. Coregroupresources2 open roles
  7. Ferguson2 open roles
  8. Five Below2 open roles
  9. KUKA2 open roles
  10. Merrick Medical Center2 open roles

Colleges in Newport News city

Colleges in Newport News city
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Christopher Newport UniversityNewport NewsPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Cities in Newport News city

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Virginia’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.